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  • From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Papaws
  • Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:06:55 -0400

Bill
They like a slightly acid soil. Work into the hole a bale of Canadian Spaghnum peat before planting.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

I live in a limestone soil region. Would pawpaws do well here?

Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Lucky Pittman
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Papaws


At 09:41 PM 09/15/2002 -0500, J.Frisk wrote:

I just had my first Papaws from my orchard. I have had the trees for about 20 years. They are about 20 feet high. I believe that I have just one variety. It suckered another large stem a number of years ago that is as tall as the original tree. I planted two varieties but the other one died almost immediately.

Judson,
If these were grafted selections, the root sucker that came up is from the seedling rootstock, and is, indeed, a second 'variety', thus providing the opportunity for cross-pollination between the two.


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY



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